Castle
Blair Castle
SCT Scotland · 13th century
Blair Castle (in Scottish Gaelic: Caisteil Bhlàir) stands in its grounds near the village of Blair Atholl in Perthshire in Scotland. It is the ancestral home of the Clan Murray, and was historically the seat of their chief, the Duke of Atholl, though the current chief, the 12th Duke of Atholl, lives in South Africa, where he was born and raised. The castle stands in Glen Garry, and commands a strategic position on the main route (now the A9 road) through the central Scottish Highlands.
The castle is a category A listed building, and the grounds are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens.
Text adapted from “Blair Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Blair Castle ranks #461 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #20 of the 96 mapped in Scotland. Founded 1269, it is older than 73% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 478 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. See how Scotland compares in the castle statistics.
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